SY316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Loose Coupling, Human Capital
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Weber (bueraucratic view: created to support the pursuit of specific goals, features include, formal structure: patterned practices, participants, goals: desired ends, technology: how the work gets done, environment: Custo(cid:373)e(cid:396)s, supplie(cid:396)s, professionals informal structure: culture, norms, values: examples: hospitals, schools, prisons, etc they all come together for a specified purpose/to reach a certain age, note: goals might vary from organization to organization. The university: formal structure, participants, ad(cid:373)issio(cid:374) p(cid:396)o(cid:272)edu(cid:396)es, (cid:858)le(cid:448)els(cid:859) (cid:894)yea(cid:396) (cid:1005), (cid:1006), (cid:1007), (cid:1008),(cid:895), deg(cid:396)ee (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts, students, faculty, staff, goals, education, research, human capital, socialization, technology, classroom instruction, labs, computers, power-point, environment, othe(cid:396) u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)sities, e(cid:373)ploye(cid:396)s, alu(cid:373)(cid:374)i, go(cid:448)(cid:859)t a(cid:374)d supplie(cid:396)s. Preamble: pre-modern schools, small and informal, decentralized, (cid:272)hools ope(cid:396)ated (cid:448)ia (cid:862)t(cid:396)aditio(cid:374)al autho(cid:396)ity(cid:863, teachers had in loco parentis authority over students. Modern schooling bureaucracies: rational-legal authority, alters the dynamics between teachers and students, parents and students as clients, rationalization of the curriculum and teaching, from passing on traditions to nation building, teachers responsible for skills (not just morals)
